Global climate change awareness is increasing, but efforts to convey information can trigger undesirable behaviors, including denial, skepticism, and increased resource consumption. It is therefore essential to more fully investigate social–psychological responses to climate information and messaging if we are to prompt, support, and sustain pro-environmental behaviors. Yet consideration of these responses is typically absent from interdisciplinary environmental study designs. Of specific relevance is research using social psychology's Terror Management Theory (TMT) showing that people's efforts to repress mortality salience (MS) or awareness significantly influence their attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors. Research on MS's influence on climate change beliefs is progressing but, to date, a systematic scoping review of the literature has been unavailable. Here, we provide such a review. We propose that TMT insights and methods should be better integrated into research designs to guide climate communications and to generate the comprehensive cultural and behavioral changes needed to address societies' climate problems. We introduce a methodological framework for interdisciplinary researchers to incorporate TMT into their research designs and to help practitioners anticipate how their mortality-laden messaging could trigger unintentional social-psychological responses that degrade climate communication strategies.

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死亡率管理和气候行动：在跨学科环境研究中使用恐怖管理理论方法的回顾和参考

全球气候变化意识正在增强，但传达信息的努力可能会引发不良行为，包括否认、怀疑和增加资源消耗。因此，如果我们要促进、支持和维持亲环境行为，就必须更全面地调查对气候信息和信息传递的社会心理反应。然而，跨学科环境研究设计通常不考虑这些反应。特别相关的是使用社会心理学的恐怖管理理论 (TMT) 的研究表明，人们抑制死亡显着性 (MS) 或意识的努力显着影响他们的态度、信念和行为。关于 MS 对气候变化信念的影响的研究正在取得进展，但迄今为止，还没有对文献进行系统的范围审查。在这里，我们提供了这样的评论。我们建议将 TMT 的见解和方法更好地整合到研究设计中，以指导气候交流并产生解决社会气候问题所需的全面文化和行为改变。我们为跨学科研究人员引入了一个方法框架，以将 TMT 纳入他们的研究设计，并帮助从业者预测他们充满死亡的信息如何引发无意的社会心理反应，从而降低气候传播策略。